[PRCo] Re: West Penn Destination Sign Photo

[Fred Schneider]

Some things never change, do they....

United Railways and Electric Company did the same thing in Baltimore but in a
more complicated fashion ... they color coded the glass in clerestory
windows.  The window over the bonnet was etched glass with the route name
painted on the glass.  Car numbers included the route number, i.e. 264 was
assigned to route 2, 1164 to route 11.  Therefore moving cars around meant
changing all the clerestory windows and painting new numbers.

With 10 percent of our population speaking Spanish at home, and others
speaking Farsi and other Middle Eastern tongues, and a huge number of
Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and other far eastern peoples, there is
justification to continue the practice.

Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 1/18/2005 5:25:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com writes:
> Yes, this is true  --  but according to info on pg.09 of PRMA tome on
> WP:::::::
> """.......destination signs were color coded, with no two connecting
> lines using the same colors."""       So No Problem with Fairchance and
> Dawson being same colors.
>
> Jim__Holland
> Just in case not everyone on this list is familiar with the WP color
> destination signs and why they were colored, the 1952 booklet
> also says:  "Due to the then high illiteracy rate among immigrants
> who rode the cars to and from the coal pits, destination signs were color
> coded...."
>
> the other Fred